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I am running grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo to determine the RAM installed on a system, however instead of reporting a number corresponding to an even number of GB, it is slightly off.
I.e. on my 64 GB ...

It sometimes takes up to 20 seconds for krunner (kde application launcher, i actually use it with XFCE) to show up when my pc is under heavy load. How can i upgrade its responsivness (to, for example ...

I have 32 GB of memory in my PC. This is more than enough for a linux OS. Is there an easy to use version of Linux (Ubuntu preferably) that can be booted via optical or USB disk and be run completely ...

I want to install Mint in my laptop, but I'm undecided about which desktop environment I should use with it. Currently the available desktop environments the distribution offers are Cinnamon, MATE, ...

I have been developing a MySQL database that makes some use of BLObs. This has now been transferred on to a virtual machine (VM) in preparation for going fully into the 'cloud'. However some of the ...

I want to find a cross-distro solution for setting linux up to boot from RAM. What this involves in essence would be copying an existing installation of linux one way or another over to the RAM (to ...

As a side project, I am thinking about adding a NTP server to pool.ntp.org. I would like to use CentOS basic, but how much RAM and CPU should I assign to a machine that will only be running ntpd (plus ...

Ok I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post this. It is more of a 'why not' question than a 'how to' one (assumption is that it isn't/can't be done).
Why don't we allow RAM to be partitioned ...

I would like to understand the difference of MAC OS X "Virtual Memory" and Linux/Unix Swap.
I ask this because I observed that MAC OS X "Virtual Memory" seems to work way more efficient (in desktop ...

So, we have top, htop, iotop, iostat, vmstat, etc, to measure many different things on Linux, but how can one measure how much MB/s a process is reading and writting to/from RAM, i.e., virtual memory?
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I am setting up a lot of 64-bit RedHat VMs (VMware vSphere) for our development department in my company. Most of them start with 4096MB of RAM, but Linux only seems to recognize 3832MB. Can anyone ...

I want to create 20gb ram disk for ANSYS to work in yet on free -g I see:
And personally I have not created any ram drives yet. So I wonder how to maximize avaliable ram: how to locate what is using ...

Is there a way to get out more out of your limited Ram on a VM?
I have a VM running on a cloud hoster and try to optimize a quite low on RAM mashine.
I heard, there is a way to compress parts in the ...

I currently have a "friend" that has an account on my dedicated server which is running Ubuntu. Not getting into specifics, but he said he will use ~2gb max and he's using ~10gb. On to the question. ...

I have two RAM modules (8 GB each) but there is only one shown in free. I hope that following info will help you to locate the problem and find a solution:
$ uname -srvmo
Linux 3.10.27-1-MANJARO #1 ...

Been going through this topic - http://askubuntu.com/questions/157793/why-is-swap-being-used-even-though-i-have-plenty-of-free-ram.
Turned down swappiness to 10 and then to 0 but my installation is ...

Can I determinate the amount of RAM exchange (between the CPU and the RAM) on a running Linux system?
I'm not looking for the max RAM speed (then memtest would be valid answer). I'm looking for the ...

I want to create a fixed size Linux ramdisk which never swaps to disk. Note that my question is not "why" I want to do this (let say, for example, that it's for an educative purpose or for research): ...

I am currently having some issues running Java. It won't start because of heap issues. But I have more than 9 GB Ram free (or even 16 GB if you assumed the cache would be empty). This is the error I ...

I have a stick of bad memory (the computer randomly segfaults an it gives memtest86+ errors, picture of output at bottom). As I would like this computer to be working while I work on getting new ram, ...